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Petrobank Closes Convertible Note Offering

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 10, 2009) - Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. ("Petrobank") (TSX:PBG) announces the closing of our previously announced offering of convertible notes (the "Offering"). The Offering consisted of US$400 million principal amount of convertible notes due July 10, 2015 (the "Notes"). The Notes are convertible into common shares of Petrobank and have an annual coupon rate of 5.125% and a conversion price of US$38.08 (Cdn$44.01) per Note. The Offering resulted in gross proceeds of US$400 million and was led by ABG Sundal Collier Norge ASA. CIBC World Markets Inc., Haywood Securities Inc., RBC Capital Markets, Scotia Capital Inc. and TD Securities Inc. acted as financial advisors with respect to the Offering.

Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. is a Calgary-based oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in western Canada and Latin America. The Company operates high-impact projects through three business units and a technology subsidiary. The Canadian Business Unit is focused on developing a solid production platform from the Bakken light oil play in southeast Saskatchewan, and exploiting a large undeveloped land base through the application of new technology to large oil and gas resource opportunities. The Latin American Business Unit, operated by Petrobank's 66.7% owned TSX-listed subsidiary, Petrominerales Ltd. (TSX:PMG), is a Latin American-based exploration and production company producing oil in Colombia with 16 exploration blocks covering a total of 1.9 million acres in the Llanos and Putumayo Basins of Colombia and 2.6 million acres in the Ucayali Basin of Peru. Whitesands Insitu Partnership, a partnership between Petrobank and its wholly-owned subsidiary Whitesands Insitu Inc., owns 75 net sections of oil sands leases in Alberta, 36 sections of oil sands licenses in Saskatchewan and operates the Whitesands project which is field-demonstrating Petrobank's patented THAI™ heavy oil recovery process. THAI™ is an evolutionary in-situ combustion technology for the recovery of bitumen and heavy oil that integrates existing proven technologies and provides the opportunity to create a step change in the development of heavy oil resources globally. THAI™ and CAPRI™ are registered trademarks of Archon Technologies Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petrobank.